YMMV / Yatterman Night

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Fans jokingly started calling Galina a closet paedophile based on the outfits he makes for Leopard. He's also been called a jerk in the same vein, saying that he peeks on blind girls in the bath^note When he was dragged along by Voltkatze and Elephantus to see the girls' hot spring in episode 4 and likes pushing little girls down for fun.^note Galina's Training Montage in episode 5
  • Alouette has gotten some, too. For some that find it very hard to believe she can't have noticed all of the danger she's in with the Doronbo, they believe that she's actually faking her blindness and is instead incredibly delirious, which explains her non-reactions to danger.
• Arc Fatigue: Some have complained about the slow pace of the anime, seeing as that at the point when the series was half over, the group still hadn't given Yatter Kingdom a run for its money. Apparently a lot of people want to see that "Forehead Flicking" happen. And when they do get to see Lord Yatterman get his just desserts, the ones to do it aren't even them- it's Galina and Alouette!
• Awesome Music:
  • Kyokugen Dreamer, the intro theme, does wonderfully at selling to us the concept of the New Doronbo being heroic with how triumphant and inspiring the instrumentation gets. Here's the official music video of the song.
  • "As Long as Doronbo Exist, Yatterman Has No Place in This World!" takes the cake.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Alouette for some. Either she's an endearing Moe girl with some serious coping issues or a flat character whose denial phase has gone on for long enough.
  • Along the same lines, Galina. While most agree that he's a good character, some don't appreciate his increasing prevalence in the story above the other Doronbo.
• Complete Monster: After spending the previous works as a comedic villain, Lord Dokurobei, enraged by losing to the heroic Yattermen, destroys much of the Earth in a colossal war. Annoyed by the failures of his minions, Dokurobei banished them and their descendants to a remote, desolate land and denies them even basic supplies like medicine. Taking the name Yatterman, Dokurobei runs a dictatorship, demanding gleeful worship and forcing people to work in his hazardous factories, which kill multiple workers, amused by humanity thinking they are serving their hero. Extending his own life by consuming energy from human suffering, Dokurobei intends to live forever by exhausting humanity to extinction, all out of a petty grudge.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Surprisingly, the persimmon seller from Episode 6. It helps that he has a pretty cool voice and an even cooler demeanor. People were actually filled with relief when they found out their "Bear Bro" survived the shot he received in his debut episode.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Some have taken to calling the series Yatterman Sins thanks to its darker take on its parent series.
  • Fans have started calling the Leopard's team the "Neo-Doronbo" in honor of their Legacy Character status.
  • "Yatterbots" or "Yatterminators" for the Yattermen.
  • Yatter Metropolis was known by some as "Yattercamp" back when the name of the kingdom's prison camp was not revealed.
  • Lolinjo for Leopard, being an underage version of Doronjo.
  • "Bear Bro" for the Persimmon Seller.
  • "Sokka" for One-shot character Ryu, mostly because of their facial similarities.
  • Lord Yatterman is sometimes referred to as "Yatterlord" or "Yatterking". Alternatively, he's called "Yatterbei".
  • "Wach 5" for the totally-not-the-Mach-5 car that appears in episode 9.
• Fashion-Victim Villain:
  • The Yattermen continue to wear the original pair's outfits as uniforms. Unfortunately, they end up looking like a product of their time.
  • The Yatter Army's captain takes this to a whole new level. Then comes their boss, General Goro...
• Genius Bonus: In episode 6, the characters discuss how lavender means something in the language of flowers. However, they never say what that meaning is; at one point a character even says what lavender means but the viewer never hears what he says. As it turns out, lavender can mean devotion, the act of waiting for someone...and also, silence.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Kenta Miyake voices a descendant of a group of incompetent villains commandeered by a skull-themed Bad Boss. In the Japanese dub of Wander over Yonder, he is that skull-themed Bad Boss in the form of Lord Hater.
  • During Yatterman's time in the sun, a video game came out with the Doronbo as the player characters, and their enemies as the Yattermen. That sounds a little familiar now, don't you think?
• I Knew It!: Color no-one surprised when Lord Yatterman is revealed to be Lord Dokurobei. There were entire portions of threads devoted to figuring out who made the world what it is now in the story, and given the level of destruction, bleakness, and not-so-subtle clues in the landscape, it almost became not a matter of who, but when they'd be revealed.
• Memetic Mutation: Ever since episode 4, fans tend to joke about the atrocities of the PRAISE THE GLORIOUS YATTER KINGDOM NAME. BANZAI!
• Moe: Leopard. Alouette can be this too.
• Moral Event Horizon: Everything Dokurobei does at the beginning of the series. Also, everything he does after that point as Lord Yatterman.
• Narm Charm: Having General Goro punch into his chest and blowing up a portion of the Yatter Kingdom castle while shouting at the top of his lungs about how Alouette is "his angel" might seem like a bit much to take in, but because of the scenes before showing how he came to be and because the scene itself is done so over-the-top and crazy, it's almost touching to watch.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Dokurobei's rampage on Dekkaido in episode 1.
  • The Yattermen. Their cold, unfeeling demeanor makes them seem a bit off-putting, and their appearance in the OP makes them look like zombies. And this is before their reveal as This Week's Surprise Mecha...
    Yatter! Yatter! Yatter! Yatter! Yatter! Yatter! Yatter! Yatter!
  • How anyone even goes to Yatter Metropolis. If someone dissents from the Yatter Kingdom in any fashion, the Yattermen will take the dissenter without any opposition from both the detainee and outside forces. Usually, this is met with dissonant cheering all around, and the detainee thanking the Yattermen for the opportunity to work for them.
• Pandering to the Base: Arguably, the premise of the series itself. It's a sequel series to the most popular entry in the Time Bokan franchise, with its main characters being descendants of the fan-favorite Doronbo Gang. The protagonists of the original have gone corrupt, and their proxies are merely side characters in the Doronbo's story. And on the Fanservice side, the new Doronjo is now a cute young girl backed up by two handsome men, later joined by a buxom young lady and another handsome young man.
• So Okay, It's Average: By the end of the story, many agree that while some of the plot points had been tired out, it was still a fun and funny romp of an anime.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • The other 11 Yatter Kingdom Guardian Gods. The 11 we're introduced to only get one episode of altogether screen time, and they use it to absolutely trounce the Doronbo Gang. Afterwards, they don't do much of anything and most of them get shucked off to side in favor of Guards 1, 2, and 3, but even then those characters get a couple of comments in and eventually get destroyed. This is especially jarring, considering the information of them being Cyborgs like Goro and their memories being taken away by Dokurobei being brought into light, and nothing coming of it.
  • The surprising lack of other Time Bokan characters in the narrative aside from a couple of nods here and there. This, in what was supposed to be the entire franchise's Milestone Celebration.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Some feel that the story should have ran with the Darker and Edgier vibes of the first three episodes instead of being a Cerebus Rollercoaster.
  • Others mentioned that having the characters that the Doronbo helped throughout the series come back to fight Lord Yatterman would have been preferable to just having them sit around during the final battle. Some of them (e.g. Takeshi, Persimmon Seller) even have the ability to fight back in a major way.
  • There was also the plot point that the 12 Yatter Kingdom Guardian Gods had all had their memories wiped by Dokurobei. It would have been interesting to see what they would have been like if they had gotten their memories back, just like what happened to Goro.
  • The Great Offscreen War between the Doronbo and the Yattermen. The most we get out of the plot is that Dokurobei and his goons fought the Yattermen and won, but resulted in the destruction of Dekkaido and the rise of the Yatter Kingdom, but not much more is elaborated on. In fact, all of the aforementioned was done in a quick, three minute video presentation Lord Dokurobei put together to explain his rise to power. For that matter, The fact that the narrative could have explored the possibility of the Yattermen creating a system for protecting Dekkaido and its failing over the years would have been some good material to go through, as well.
• The Un-Twist: Lord Yatterman is actually Lord Dokurobei. Almost no one bought that the Yattermen alone could create such a world like Yatter Kingdom.
• The Woobie:
  • Poor, poor little Leopard. Lost her father before she was even born, and then her mother on her ninth birthday. And then, to make matters worse, she became disillusioned with her childhood heroes for almost trying to kill her.
  • Same goes for Voltkatze and Elephantus. They lost their dearest friend because of their inability to obtain the proper medicine for her, and by Episode 3 they cite this as Their Greatest Failure.
  • Allouette and Galina, too. All of their parents were sent to Yatter Metropolis, where they died in a factory explosion. Alouette took it so hard that she went into deep denial and went blind, and Galina has to take care of her.
• Woolseyism: The Funimation subs turn Dekkaido, the original city from Yatterman, into Hulkkaido, a rather fitting way to preserve the original pun.^note Both pun off the real-life location of Hokkaido, while Dekai means "Huge" in Japanese.
  • Early episodes (of the Anime LV DVD translation) attempt a punny English translation of Dokurobei as "Skullduggerstein", playing off his literal Japanese name (Dokuro - skull), his true physical nature (stein - stone), and his devious and ruthless ways (skulduggery). Dropped in the finale, when even the subtitles just start calling him by his original name, possibly because it just sounds more menacing and following the reveal, not to mention the character's proudly boasting of having killed millions of humans through direct attack and slow, grinding, humiliating attrition just for the sake of a petty grudge he only even realised in retrospect, giving him a jokey name doesn't really strike the right tone.

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